MyHOME ID is the persistent digital identity layer for residential property. It lives with the home — not the owner, not the agent, not the bank. Across every sale. Every transition. Every generation of devices.
Connected fixtures — smart locks, thermostats, cameras, HVAC controllers, security systems — persist with the property across ownership cycles. Credential continuity does not.
No MLS field documents this. No title report captures it. No inspection protocol standardizes it. Every industry that touches a residential property transaction maintains its own fragmented record of what's inside. They don't talk to each other. They're not referencing the same source of truth.
The result: devices stay bound to prior owners. New owners inherit ghost accounts. Agents spend uncompensated time resolving it. The transaction closes without a record.
When a home with smart devices sells, the Nest thermostat is still in the old owner's Google account. The smart lock still has their fingerprint. The video doorbell may still be streaming to their phone. Nobody checked. There was no system for it. We call these Ghost Devices.
| Asset | Identity Standard | Exists |
|---|---|---|
| Vehicle | VIN | ✓ |
| Business entity | EIN | ✓ |
| Financial security | CUSIP | ✓ |
| Real property (deed) | Title / APN | ✓ |
| Person | SSN / passport | ✓ |
| Home's digital infrastructure | — | ✗ |
| MyHOME ID | MYHID | ✓ |
This is the core architectural inversion. Every U.S. residential address has already been assigned a persistent MyHOME ID — before any documentation event occurs. The identity is pre-instantiated, not generated on demand.
135M+ U.S. residential addresses are pre-instantiated inside the MyHOME ID registry. Four regional Merkle roots, IPFS-pinned and anchored on Ethereum before any capture event. The grid was on before you arrived.
When a property owner initiates documentation, SL8 Sentinel identifies and fingerprints every connected fixture present. Participant-authorized. Snapshot-based. Not continuous. A submission produces a record; absence produces nothing.
At closing, the verified profile transfers with the home — not the owner. Every device's transfer procedure is generated automatically. New owner, same identity. No ghost accounts. No orphaned access. No disputes.
MyHOME ID is not a product. It is the reference layer that every other system eventually connects to — the way routing numbers connect to finance, or IP addresses connect to the internet.
The network effect is every enterprise partner that adopts MyHOME ID as their reference ID. One integration each, instead of bilateral integrations with every other participant. N to 1, not N squared.
Ethereum and IPFS verification for MyHOME ID regional ledgers. Each region exposes a point-in-time ledger manifest, state-level Merkle roots, and cryptographic file hashes for long-term infrastructure continuity.
A Merkle root is a single cryptographic fingerprint that summarizes every record in a regional ledger. If even one byte changes — one address or one identifier — the fingerprint changes. The roots below are immutable. They prove the ledger that existed at the timestamp shown is the same ledger being referenced now.
Without a shared identity layer, every institution integrates bilaterally with every other. MyHOME ID collapses that to one integration each.
Today's closing may involve 20+ connected fixtures, three integrated security systems, and a solar array tied to an app. MyHOME ID is the layer that changes what a title report contains.
There is no verified field for them in any MLS. MyHOME ID gives MLS systems the SDF documentation standard they've been missing.
Verified digital infrastructure documentation reduces ambiguity in property risk assessment. Better pricing. Better underwriting. Less uncertainty.
MyHOME ID instantiation is available at the property layer before first occupancy. Certification at delivery becomes a differentiator.
"The identity exists before the scan.
Not derived from it. Not generated by it.
Already there."